Stamp pad or tablet.



A. SUTCLIPFE. STAMMAD on TABLET. APPLICATION ILIjID `JUNE 28. 1907.

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ALFRED SUTCLIFFE, OF HUMMELSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

STAMP PAD OR TABLET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1908.

Application filed June 28, 1907. Serial No. 381,290.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ALFRED SUTCLIFFE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hummelstown, in the countyV of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stamp Pads or Tablets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a stamp pad or tablet intended for use in postofiices, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a device of this character, whereby the stamps can be kept indefinitely in proper condition and prevented from curling up and sticking` together, thereby avoiding the great loss incident to the present method of handling stamps and whereby the record of the number of stamps sold and stamps in stock can be ascertained rapidly4 and accurately, and furthermore, the invention has for one of its objects to provide a useful and convenient stamp pad in such form that stamps can be shipped from the Government or Postal Department to the various postofiices with accuracy and despatch.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a stamp tablet composed of sheets of stamps with interposed sheets of paraffin paper or the like having series of numbers thereon for indicating, at a glance, how many stamps have been sold from the top sheet of the tablet and how many remain, there being a suitable numbering system for the sheets of stamps so asto indicate at any time the number of sheets that have been sold from the tablet and the number of sheets remaining.

`With these objects in view and others, as will a pear as the description proceeds, the invention comprises the various novel features of construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates one of the embodiments of the inven* tion, Figure l is a perspective view of a stamp tablet composed of a plurality of sections. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of the sheets of one section of the tablet, the sheets being shown spread apart to illustrate the sheet numbering system.

Similar reference characters are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing, A designates a tablet comprising a backing 1 and alternate sheets of stamps and paraffin paper Q and 3 respectively, glued at their top edges to the backing in the usual manner. In the present instance, the pad is composed of five sections, each section including one thousand stamps. The stamps are arranged in sheets of one hundred each preferably with ten stamps in a row, both vertically and cross* wise, the stamps being indicated by the perforations 4l. On each sheet of praffin paper are two sets of numbers 5 and G that read in opposite directions, one series or set beginning with l at the upper left hand corner and ending at the lower right hand corner with 100, and arranged in cross rows with ten numbers in a row to correspond to the stamps, and the other series or set of numbers reading in reversed order, that is to say,

1 is at the lower right hand corner and 1GO at the upper left hand corner, so that when any stamps are removed from the top sheet, the numbers at the last stamp will indicate how many stamps have been removed, this number being in the set 6, while the number under the last stamp of the set 5 indicates how many stamps remain in the sheet. For instance, by reference to Fig. l, it will be seen that thirty-five stamps have been removed from'the top sheet and that sixty-five stamps remain.

In order to keep account of the number of sheets of stamps removed and the number remaining, a suitable marginal index is provided, and for this purpose, each paraffin or oiled sheet 3 has a bottom extension 7 arranged in stepped fashion similar to an index book, and on the exposed portions of these extensions are numbers from 100 to 1000 on the paraiiin sheets of each section. After each sheet of stamps is removed, the succeeding parafiin sheet is torn off so that the total number of stamps removed can be quickly ascertained. On the lower left hand corners of the sheets 3 are numbers beginning with 900 on the second sheet and ending with 100 on the tenth sheet of each section for the purpose of showing how many stamps remain in the pad. For instance, when the first sheet of stamps is removed, nine-hundred stamps remain in the top section, as revealed by the number in the lower left hand corner on the extension 7 of the second paraffin sheet. I/Vhen twenty-five stamps of the second sheet are removed, the total number of stamps will vbe twenty-five 

